The Dodgers finalized their 2014 coaching staff Monday with two notable changes.

Tim Wallach is moving from the third-base coach’s box to become Don Mattingly’s bench coach, and Lorenzo Bundy, who managed the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes the past three years, was named third base coach.

Wallach recently interviewed for managerial jobs in Detroit and Seattle but was passed over for Brad Ausmus and Lloyd McClendon, respectively. Wallach also was a finalist for jobs in Boston and Toronto in 2012.

This is the third different coaching role Wallach has held in the organization since being named Dodgers’ hitting coach in 2004 and 2005. He managed Triple-A Albuquerque in 2009 before being named third base coach in 2010.

Bundy was the Pacific Coast League manager of the year in 2012. He managed the Las Vegas 51s, then the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate, in 2007 and 2008, before moving to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2009 as first base coach. The 54-year-old also managed in the Mexican Winter League (1991-2006), where he won a championship for Novojoa during the 1999-2000 season, and was twice named Manager of the Year.

Kemp, Billingsley will be ready for camp

The agent for Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp and pitcher Chad Billingsley said Monday that both players will be able to participate in spring training activities from the start of camp.

Dave Stewart, the former Dodgers pitcher who now represents both players, said that the road back will be slower for Billingsley, who underwent Tommy John surgery on his right elbow in April.

“I think (the Dodgers) will be conservative,” Stewart said, “but (Billingsley) will be starting with everybody else in spring training.”

Stewart said that Billingsley believes he’ll be able to pitch in games starting in April 2014. The 29-year-old right-hander underwent the ligament replacement procedure April 24; the Dodgers didn’t announce a specific timetable for Billingsley’s recovery at the time, only that pitchers typically return to competition in 12 months.

For now, Stewart said that Billingsley is throwing from 120 feet at 75 to 80 percent, and hopes to start throwing off a mound in January.

Kemp is already at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., recuperating from October surgeries on his left ankle and left shoulder. Kemp had arthroscopic surgery Oct. 24 to remove several spurs and a loose body, and do a microfracture on the talus bone in his left foot. He’s expected to be in a walking boot “for another couple weeks,” Stewart said.

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